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I have a 16 GB TDK flash drive with one fat32 partition and msdos partition table. On ubuntu 14.04 using gparted I am trying to resize this partition from ~14.4(16) GB to 12.4 and leave 2 GB of free ...

I mount a FAT32 filesystem (because it needs to be compatible with windows) that has an SVN repository on it. It is mounted with owners root:plugdev and permissions rwxrwx--- . My user account is a ...

First of all, my apologies: I've seen a tons of forums related to this topic, but nowhere did I see a solution to this problem.
I've switched to Linux only recently and my biggest issue about it is ...

I'd like to use my pendrive primarily for storing various data for my Linux (and not losing metadata like permissions and ownerships), but I don't want to exclude access to it from Windows - e.g. if I ...

I have Ubuntu 14.10 with WinUSB and I have a Windows 8.1 Pro ISO with a 4GB SD Card with an empty FAT32 partition. Everytime I try to use it, it says "Installation failed, exit code: 256". How do I ...

I have two FAT 32 partitions,one NTFS and an ext4 partition on my system having dual boot windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.10.Sometimes when I copy/move files between the FAT partitions,the copying does not ...

I have a 2GB SD card which I completely encrypted with TrueCrypt some time ago. However, I lost the key and there was no valuable data on it.
Windows 8 formatted it to fat32 without any problems and ...

i'm using ubuntu 14.10 utopic beta 2 (waiting for the officiel release)
i've two partitions (FAT32) where i save my documents..
i would like to make those two partitions starts with boot.more clearly, ...

I used it on android and it just stopped working. I want to extract data before I format it. Here's the output of sudo dosfsck -w -r -l -a -v -t /dev/mmcblk0p1:
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
fsck.fat ...

I just took a dive into the Ubuntu world jumping from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 14.04. I must say that I am impressed, I do like it a lot. However, I just ran into an unexpected problem; I have an LG DVD ...

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS today, I found that the EFI partition type showing on Ubuntu is VFAT, but I always heard the partition type for EFI partition should be FAT32. I returned to Windows ...

I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 through Wubi and I do not know how to change the permissions so that it lets me use the Windows partition, for it says I'm not the owner. This is a VFAT partition. I ...

I know its a duplicate question, but I couldn't find a answer that would have satisfied me..
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10, You know I was holding with the LTS but couldn't resist all those new ...

i'm fairly sure i need a bootable usb for my new self built computer, but i'm not 100 certain, so i'm asking. and as for how to make a bootable usb, i have a usb in FAT 32 format, and i got stuck on ...

I am trying to mount an external HDD (fat32) with 777 permissions as I wish to share it via nfs on my local network.
I am mounting using the following command (and I have tried several variations):
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I have an external 1tb HDD that is formatted in fat32. I use it to connect to my Blu-ray player, which has a USB port, to watch movies. Frequently, movie files are over 4gb and will not transfer to ...

I'm really new to Linux, so I might seems to be stupid from time to time. But anyways, I unplugged a USB flash memory from my computer, while running windows xp. I think that this got it corrupt in ...

Is it possible to transfer files between Ubuntu and Windows by creating a partition? Like a flash drive would work (mounting the partition, copying the files to it, then mounting and copying on the ...

I recently installed Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 alongside Windows 7. I only gave the partition about 15 gb of space, as I installed it through the installation GUI. I wanted to add some more space to it's ...

Is there a way to change the partition format from FAT32 to NTFS without losing data in it?
For now I am aware of one method: split partition in two, set the new partition format to NTFS, copy data ...

I have a mac from 2006 and it is already not supported by new Apple system. So I did get back to Linux and I did chose Ubuntu 13.04. I did install Ubuntu side by side with OSX, but I did notice that ...

I have recently bought a new laptop, and as I use Ubuntu on my desktop, but want to play games on my laptop, i installed both windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on the laptop. It all went pretty well, I can ...

I just bought Pendrive / Flshdrive 64GB and need to archive on it file bigger than 10GB so i believe FAT32 is not an good option since it can handle only 4GB file in size. Next thing is that i though ...